Apparatus for branding animals or packages.



Patentd Jan. 7, 1902'.

' No. 690,77l.

G. RENNEB &. W. H. BOYENS. APPARATUS FOR BRANDING ANIMALS 0R PACKAGES.

A liczmmi filed A 1, 1900.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE RENNER AND WILLIAM HENRY BOYENS, OF CHRISTCHURCH,

' NEW ZEALAND.

APPARATUS FOR BRANDING ANIMALS OR PACKAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,771, dated anuary 7, 1902.

Application filed August 1, 1900. Serial No. 25,580. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE RENNER and WILLIAM HENRY BoYENs, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 183 Hereford street, Christchurch, in the Colony of New Zealand, have invented a new and useful Improved Apparatus for Branding Animals or Packages; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide improved apparatus for brand-marking animals, wool-bales, corn-sacks, and the like.

The invention consists of a tubular reservoir adapted to contain marking fluid, which is introduced through a plug or cover at one end. At the opposite end of the reservoir is a tap regulating the supply of branding fluid to a subsidiary chamber, to one face of which is fixed porous felt formed to the shape-of the brand-marking to be. produced. The branding fluid passes to the felt through perforations in the chamber.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan; Fig. 2, a longitudinal central section of the apparatus; and Fig. 3, an end elevation of the face of the subsidiary chamber, showing the branding device.

The tubular reservoir (1, is closed at one end by a screw plug or cover 17, an india-rubber washer c insuring a tight joint. At the opposite end of the reservoir is a tap d, which regulates the supply of branding fluid from the reservoir to a chamber e, the face of which has perforations f, through which branding fluid passes to the porous felt g, out to the shape of the marking to be produced. The felt is held in position by the metal spring frame or clip h, which is fixed to and projects from the face of the chamber e and grips the felt upon its sides or edges. The perforations f are arranged to suit the shape of the felt, which in operation becomes saturated with the branding fluid and when pressed upon an object the brand device is produced thereon. The branding fluid for use with the apparatus should preferably be of such nature that the coloring-matter is not filtered out by the felt sufficiently to interfere with thelegibility of the brand. A suitable fluid consists of a mixture of anilin dye and water in which a small quantity of glue has been dissolved.

The frame carrying the branding device can be secured to the face of the chamber e by screw-pins, soldering, or any other usual means. g

It will be seen that the chamber e extends laterally about the conduit-tube, so that thus an extended surface is provided for the at tachment of the pad and for furnishing a brand design of any desired shape and of suitable size.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A branding-stamp comprising a reservoir, a chamber 6, a cond nit-tube leading from the chamber to the reservoir with a tap therein, a porous felt pad secured to the face of the chamber, the said chamber having the perforated wall between the pad and the said chamber, substantially as described.

2. In combination, in a branding-stamp, a reservoir, a conduit-tube leading from the chamber with a tap therein, a chamber at the end of said conduit-tube, said chamber extending laterally about the said tube and having a perforated lower wall and a pad held against said perforated wall, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE RENNER. WILLIAM HENRY BOYENS.

Witnesses:

Ennnsr J. ANsTIss, STANLEY W. JONES. 

